Michael Robinson



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Michael Robinson
3C5 David Rittenhouse Lab
University of Pennsylvania
209 S 33rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6395
P: (215)898-6285
F: (215)573-4063
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I am an applied mathematician working as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. I am interested in signal processing, dynamics, and applications of topology.

I earned a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (2002) and a Master's degree in Mathematics (2003) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. From that time, I have worked on projects involving radio propagation and network planning, bistatic radar processing, and advanced radar simulation. In 2008, I earned a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at Cornell University in which I developed topological methods for studying the dynamics of parabolic equations. My more recent efforts follow an emerging trend of topologically-motivated signal processing techniques. My current projects involve a novel approach for opportunistic and distributed imaging, structural methods for analyzing asynchronous circuitry based on sheaf theory, and studying integral transforms based on the Euler calculus.

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